Doubling v. State

This is one of several actions pending in the Court of Claims wherein inmates of Illinois penal institutions are seeking damages for the alleged loss of items of personal property incurred when they were transferred between institutions.

The complaint herein alleges that on February 1, 1974, the Claimant had in his possession at the Illinois State Penitentiary, Menard Branch, certain items of personal property having a value of $183.82; that in mid-February he was ordered transferred to the State-ville Branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary; that he was not permitted to take his personal…